From fc69d42acf636d56e8131f34e482780bd36b645d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Warren <me@jonwarren.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 16:46:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Show error if encodeAddress function is given a RIPE hash
 that is not 20 bytes long

---
 addresses.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/addresses.py b/addresses.py
index 7b2650df..402f3a7d 100644
--- a/addresses.py
+++ b/addresses.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def calculateInventoryHash(data):
 def encodeAddress(version,stream,ripe):
     if version >= 2:
         if len(ripe) != 20:
-            sys.stderr.write('Programming error in encodeAddress: The length of a given ripe hash was not 20.')
+            raise Exception("Programming error in encodeAddress: The length of a given ripe hash was not 20.")
         if ripe[:2] == '\x00\x00':
             ripe = ripe[2:]
         elif ripe[:1] == '\x00':